Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus Awards, Users' Comments and Notices - 1. Awards and Reviews
- 2. Users' Comments
- 3. Media Notices
- • Latest! Net-mom has selected The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus for inclusion in the new edition of The Internet Kids and Family Yellow Pages (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1998).
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Education
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given Wordsmyth an A rating!!
- • ED's Oasis editorial team, ED's Scouts, has found the WEDT to be educationally sound, easily navigated, intellectually engaging, and wholesome, and has awarded us the ED's A-OK award.
- • The WEDT is the official dictionary of Diversity University.
Here are comments made by users of the WEDT If you have comments to make, please send email to me (Bob Parks), or use the feedback form.
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• Could not pass up the opportunity to tell you your site is a godsend -- especially for me -- a writer. Joan Herndon
- P.S. I'm going back to see if godsend is one word or two and whether it's
- hyphenated or capitalized. (June 28, 1998)
- • As a reference librarian, I have to tell you this is one of the greatest reference tools I've ever come across. I plan to give it a big plug on the Neat New Things I Found This Week section of Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net, and link it in permanently on the "What is It? page on my Reference Desk. Thank you for creating such an "elgant" (thank you, it found "elegant") tool.
- Marylaine Block, Associate Director for Public Services
- O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University
- Proprietor, Where the Wild Things Are: Librarian's Guide to the Best Information on the Net http://www.sau.edu/CWIS/Internet/Wild/index.htm
- • Dear Mr. Parks
- Your Wordsmyth Dictionary / Thesaurus is a milestone. You and your team are to be applauded congratulated, but most of all thanked. Best regards from Berlin.
- Joe Greenman
- • Wordsmyth is fantastic! I write for a living and Wordsmyth enhances my ability to write. Whoever is funding the Wordsmyth project should first congratulate you and then give you more resources. (David L. Van Vranken, Professor)
- • This is the BEST dictionary I've seen !!!!! You don't even have to be that close to the correct spelling (like all the other dictionaries) to get the word you were searching for. Thanks! Frederick Shanley
- • This is an absolutely great site! Thanks for posting it! Willaim R. Snyder (Republican National Committee)
- • As a U of C MBA with a Ph.D., this is the most fun I have had in a long time. Great work! - Nina Cunningham (Strategic Planning Consultant)
- • The remote lookup window is an awesome tool. I do network programming and processing all day and am very sensitive to GUI convenience and annoyance. Your dictionary interface is the best of all I use.
- * It's the fastest lookup on the web.
- * The window is small and easily backgrounded; it doesn't crowd other apps.
- * Don't have to worry about backing up to the web site if you've surfed in the meantime. It's always there when you need it.
- * Great for occasional use throughout the day, like for those extra important emails.
- * Spawns multiple windows so you can see more than one word simultaneously.
- (Guiseppe Lovesmoke, Network Programmer)
- • Dear Dr. Parks,
- After a week of using your WEDT Remote, I found this facility is excellent and convenient for my academic use. I set it as "home" site so the first thing that is loaded on my screen is the Remote menu, then click minimize icon for it to rest on the desktop. Then I work as usual with my other programs. Whenever I need a dictionary/thesaurus, just click the Remote icon! Thank you for making my life easier. This would be appreciated by more people like myself. Salute to you and your team. Regards and thanks, - Xuan
• "I'm an accountant in Vancouver, BC. I wasn't happy with the limited dictionary and thesaurus in Word ( and too cheap to go out and buy one) and I thought I would search for something on the net. Yours looked pretty interesting and when I checked a few words it was comprehensive as well." Nancy Castelluccio
• My comment is one of gratitude. It's a great website, works really well, and I use it all the time. Links to other sites are also very useful. Thank you. John D'Hondt (Independent Author, San Francisco)
• "Definitely one of the finest things I've come across in the whole WWW for a long time. I keep coming back again and again, which can't be said on a whole lot of other sites. Thank you so much." Mikko Kallio (student, Finland)
• I was pretty pleased to find an English Dictionary online, but that pleasure soon turned to elation when I discovered that it was easy to use, informative and accurate. The content of this dictionary is obviously work of very high standard. Thank you. Ellen Reisinger (Australia; IT Support officer, Librarian and housewife)
- • I appreciate the wonderful work you have done. I am sure it will be very useful for a lot of people.
- Cheers !!! Krishna Sushanth (Software Programmer)
- • We checked your Wordsmith dictionary. We thought it was great. Quite easy to use and look up. Chiaki Sekiguchi
• Love this dictionary!!!...... Karen Howe-Fernandez
- • Thanks for the great site. It has been extremely useful during my current internship. I am working in japan right now doing translation. This site is a great asset in finding just the right word to use when translating.
- Thanks again. Jared Ammon Ridoutt
• This is great!!! Thank you so much for putting it up. Jim Crockett (Programmer)
• I really like this website and it is a great help with school work!!! (Timothy Hossain, 14, Student)
• I would love to get the full version of your dictionary. It is beautifully laid out and easy to read. Thank you in anticipation. Linda Barnett
- • Mr. Parks:
- Two thumbs up for your Wordsmyth English Dictionary & Thesaurus. I like it. It's an important contribution to the Internet. But I would not live up to my dubious reputation as a troublemaker if I could not find something wrong with it.
- It took me a long time to find something wrong, but my perseverance paid off. You didn't include "wordfare," even though this resourceful word has been around for a number of years. I first saw it in the September/October 1977 issue of Mother Earth News. The editor was telling writers to "use every possible rule of civilized wordfare...that will help to focus and clarify the ideas and emotions you're putting on paper." .... Don't feel bad, though. "Wordfare" doesn't appear in other dictionaries, either.
- Once again, thank you for your excellent Wordsmyth Dictionary. I've got it bookmarked, and I'm going to use it often. -- Wes Gales
- • Thank you so much for the wonderful job you've done. For a non-native English speaker like myself, the excellent on-line dictionary of yours is extremely helpful. HIlya Simovsky (Toshiba America MRI, inc.)
- • What a neat site! You have put many many hours into its development. I can't wait until everything is completed. --- Katie Hawes
- • What a great site! I very often have the site and minimized while I'm working. More power to the improvment of the mind! -- Jonnie W. Johnson
- • As you already have access to so many words my thoughts will be conveyed simply.
- Brilliant!! Thank you for your efforts to keep the English language alive and flowing. (Alice O. Wheeler, Director/Consultant)
- • As a computer consultant, the proper use of words is crucial to my work. I am constantly looking for good resources to help me find words for the fine distinctions I need to make in writing software. Indeed, I believe that a good dictionary and thesaurus is the most important tool for a developer. I am intrigued by your project, and I would like to participate both as a software engineer and as an educator. I would also like to see your online dictionary/thesaurus include antonyms. Thanks for your efforts. Rob Williams
- • I think, it's probably the best dictionary-thesaurus I could find on the Internet. When an unknown word didn't exist in my conventional dictionary, I always could rely on Your magnificent Wordsmyth. The interface is very clear and comfortable. Presented information is very well structured. Examples are well chosen and very useful in understanding of the real meaning of a given word. Finally, I can't express any suggestions or improvements because I can't see any disadvantages in the Wordsmyth Dictionary Project. Piotr Kluk (engineer, postgraduate student)
- • Love it so far, a treat to find for expanding one's vocabulary -- keep up the great work. I will encourage my school-age children to stop by frequently! -- Dave
- • Just a Thank You for providing this excellent site.....Gerry
- Wordsmyth,
- Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
- This is GREAT! I am an adult student who has truble seeing in the college dictnary. I was haveing great difficulty seeing the words untill I found you here. I will be sure and tell all my friends. Sincerlly,
- Debra Smith one greatful student, I will be back!
- • You're certainly to be congratulated -- and thanked -- for the work in the
- production of WORDSMYTH.... I've only begun browsing, but it seems substantially faster and clearer in results than other systems I've tried. I must say that the combination of a dictionary and thesaurus makes this particularly appealing.
- You may already have heard that the editors on COPYEDITING-L are in several cases chatting rather enthusiasticaly about Wordsmyth. Their first word of it came only a couple of days ago -- a medical journal editor in Vancouver had heard about it from some Canadian list and forwarded the announcement. - Ed Nelson
- • Congratulations! You are doing a very good job. I thank you you and your team for this project. In a while I shall give my assessment of your dictionary. Before all I just wanted to tell you that I agree with the following principle: free dictionary on the web enhances enlightment. (Foix, Administrative Manager)
- • Ladies and gentlemen. Let me start off by thanking you for your wonderful WWW service. Whenever I feel at a loss with the meaning of some vocabulary, and a quick research with my software´s thesaurus comes to no result, I resort to your helpful institution. (Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Peter Richter)
- • I think this site is just wonderful. I am going to add a link to it from my Reference Links Page. It is very useful and I had fun looking up words. Thank you for your hard work in making this site possible. J. Taylor, (Website Site Designer)
- • I have a passion for words: their meaning,correct use and the subteties involved. I am therefore enjoying your site very much. It typifies what I hope to get from the Net: knowledge. Please accept my best wishes for the continuance of your good work and its recognition as a valuable aid to the understanding of our wonderful language. - Jim Kringas (Retired Dentist)
- • I never knew about this Wordsmyth Dictionary before, but I'm very sure that it can help me a lot in my teaching career. . (Yusnita Md Yunus, Teacher).
- • I am so glad I found this site. It saves me time looking up dictionaries and provides me with almost all information I need. (It has so far..). (Anna Song, Editor)
- • Very easy to use, excellent sugestions. (Edward Hughes, College Student).
- • What a wonderful and sorely needed help you've been to me, and no doubt will continue to be! Thank you - your site is absolutely wonderful!. (Lynn I. Schuetz, College Student).
- • Dear Director of the Worldsmyth Dictionary Project,
- I am very sure that your Project is widely acknowledged everywhere and highly regarded not only by those seeking to accmplish academic achievement,but also vocatinal achievement. Wider interest, encouraged and supported for your cosiderable efforts, would be highly recomended. Sincerely Yours (Abujayyab,A.R,Ph.D.).
- • This site is extremely useful for me. Thanks a lot for designing it. . (Alok Singh, Student).
- • I think it is a great resource for students!!! . (Jenny Tan, Scientific Officer).
- • A really fantastic online dictionary, that has assisted in me in my studies and professional activities and is at the click of a button. . (David Reece, Systems Engineer).
- • I love it this idea, I really need to learn more different words. . . (Andre Bizante, Chemist).
- • Just wanted to say that this is an excellent website and the best I've found when I need to know the meaning of a word in a hurry. (Catherine Hossain, Student).
- • Great site!! This is just what I was looking for to use in my classroom. I plan to bookmark it tomorrow first thing. Your site is so easy to read compared to other online dictionaries that I've seen. I know the kids that I work with will love your site. Thanks!! . . (Gitta Actom, Teacher of Children with Learning Disabilities).
- • I AND ALL MY FRIENDS ENJOY THE WONDERFUL SERVICE YOU HAVE BEEN OFFERING...WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO AND WISH YOU ALL THE BEST IN YOUR WORK.... (IRFAN BIYIK, Professional Tour Guide)
- • I absolutely love it........... Please don't change it........ (James Hutchinson, Owner Kyminy Kennels)
- • I like the Wordsmyth Dictionary very much, I use it quite frequently. I particularly like finding hyponyms through WordNet. Finding a more precise word for something is one of the things I wish to do most often and is one of the hardest things to do with a traditional dictionary. Thanks (Sarah Manning,Cadence Design Systems AE)
- • Excellent work, keep it up (ISMAIL KHAN, Service)
- • That is really cool! Congratulations! (Janet Gross; Academic Director, Executive English, World Learning, Brattleboro, Vermont)
- • Wonderful site. I use it almost everyday. (Jeffrey Schnur, Public agency manager)
- • I think your web site is very interesting and it helps me alot. I just want to thank you guys who made this website. Thanks alot, Kasey. (Kasey Cecil, 13, Student) Your welcome Kasey ! :-)
- • My friend and I spent two hours on the phone trying to rememer a word that was a synonym of the word 'saunter'. Went online to Rogets and they dont even list 'saunter' at all, but your page gave us the word we were looking for(mosey) immediately. Thanks. How come you dont have a "heart" on your page so I can save your site to my AOL Favorites? (Bill Gnoss, Accountant)
- • I find it extremely useful and necessary in my work (Elena Paikova, Translator)
- • I've been till now referring to the Merriam-Webster dictionary site and i've found it reasonably helpful. But during a very fortuitous browsing of the net, I came across this site-nonpareil (with due respect to M-W). With a variety of features, like giving the exact meaning to approximate (of various degrees) meanings to giving examples ...., this site delivers what is needed. (Pankaj Joshi, Software Engineer)
- • I love your site! It makes it so easy to find the right words and correct the spelling errors I make. My only suggestion would be to add a rhyming section as well. Thanks again for such a great site! (John A. Lynch, truck driver)
- • Absolutely superb. This dictionary/ thesaurus is an incredibly useful writing tool. [I am a] former student at the University of Chicago. [This is] probably the most practical development at the University-- from personal experience. (Student at Yale University)
- • I greatly enjoy this online dictionary, as it is much faster and frequently better/ more easily understood than the paper one at my house. Finding out exactly what I'm reading is much easier now, as is any Vocabulary I have to look up for school. I don't know what you should make better but as is this is a great project. Thanx for the good work. (Jake, 15, Student)
- • Its absolute reqirement for every student who uses english in one phase or other in his/her life. Wordsmyth Dictionary is very informative and updated. Highly useful. I would like to have this words per week through my e-mail, with thanks - Lawrence (Rajendran Lawrence, Research Student, India)
- • I strongly support your project....Knowledge is one of the precious things to give to others. English is my second language, [and] I have a profound desire to have the depth of the language. (Ben, employee)
- • I think that you provide an invaluable service...truly great. (Michael, 28, Student)
- • A great effort & excellent help. [The] best thing is it gives meanings of slang words also which is not possible in normal dictionaries. My congratulations & best wishes to the people behind the project! (Vedula Sarma, Engineer)
- • This site is just great, thanks to all who make possible! (Naser Ali Altayeb, Student)
- • I'm just now registering, but have been looking for a site like this. I find sometimes that I'll be writing a poem and am at a loss for the perfect word. Sometimes this causes me to get so off track, that the original momentum of the poem is lost. I'm hoping to use this site often! (Betty, Real Estate Salesperson)
- • I have just discovered WEDT and I am still over-awed and can hardly think of suggestions. Later maybe. (Chris Klopper, Information Strategist)
- • This ready to use -on line package, which is essential for students like me, is well organized and maintained. All the best.. (Rajendran Lawrence, Research Student)
- • I strongly support your project....Knowledge is one of the precious things to give to others. English is my second language, [and] I have a profound desire to have [an understanding of] the depth of the language. . (Ben, Employee)
- • This ready to use -on line package, which is essential for students like me, is well organized and maintained. Its absolute reqirement for every student who uses english in one phase or other in his/her life. Wordsmyth Dictionary is very informative and updated. Highly useful. I would like to have this words per week through my e-mail. With thanks, Lawrence (Rajendran Lawrence, Research Student)
- • I greatly enjoy this online dictionary, as it is much faster and frequently better/ more easily understood than the paper one at my house. Finding out exactly what I'm reading is much easier now, as is any Vocabulary I have to look up for school. I don't know what you should make better but as is this is a great project. Thanx for the good work. (Jake, 15, Student)
- • Maybe there should be more ads for this wonderful web page on the search engines so that more people could benefit. (Chen Hongguang, Businessman)
- • I just wanted to take a few moments to thank you for providing to the internet community an extraordinary tool. I wish I could tell you how many times my team and myself have used Wordsmyth, and how much time it has saved us. Added to that, the quality of our work has improved as well.If there was a "Pulitzer" for the Web you and your team would win hands down. In a world where many try--you succeed! Continue your fine work knowing that there are many of us out in the ether cheering you on.
- When we first started working as a team the "guys" used to just throw text into the sitet to leave it to others to edit. When the president put me on the team that stopped. I showed them your site and we started to use it while the work was in progress. A year later, Wordsmyth is
- the first window they open when the day begins. I honestly believe that for the rest of their professional lives they will use this asset! If you care to, drop by our site and have a look. We are at http://www.cisglobal.com Happy Holidays!! Jim Forkin, Counselor To The President For Research, Special Initiatives, And Emerging Technologies; CISglobal)
- • This is terrific. I strive for precision in my communication. The Wordsmyth project makes finding the perfect word easy and quick. Your site goes to the top of my "favorites" list! (Tom Deardorff, Marketing Director)
- • Great Work. Thank you for your service. (Marcel DeCamara, Systems Engineer)
- • It is simply Superb!! I am searching a word in the Wordsmyth Dictionary [for a word] to praise it. (Prabakar, Systems Engineer)
- • Thank you for a very useful tool. (Ivar Nygaard, Senior Executive Officer)
- • Its great the way it is. (Heb Khafagya, Student)
- • This is a life saver. I have to be very precise in my communications. This helps alot. Thanks. (Robert Sisler, Managing Director)
- • One word - Fantastic! Thank you very much. (Mi Hyun Song, Software Specialist)
- • You cover the area quite nicely. Keep up this excellent site. (David Sutton, Retired)
- • Fantastic public service! Nothing more I can say. Keep it up. (Sherwood Munk, Software Developer )
- • Right on! No more hunting through my WordPerfect thesaurus for the right word. I wish I would've found this site months ago. (relic, mechanic)
- • It is so engaging to navigate among the world of words you have made available to the electrocommunity that I have trouble getting back to doing work. (Michael Ragland, Translator)
- • Excellent online Thesaurus, fast and very concise. I added it to my "Favourites" straight away. (Theresa Thomas-Pranckevicius, Translator)
- • Just what I've been needing. Thanks a million :) (D. Reed, graphics artist)
- • Was surfing this A.M. and found your site.How nice to know that there is help from people like you, to share your knowledge with others! Thank you and have a great day. (Alice Terrett, homemaker)
- • I like how this is easy to use. It is very helpful on my English vocabulary projects. (Natalie Day, Student)
- • This is a great job, very efficient and easy to use, especially for non native english speakers (like me). (Fabrice KURZ, student )
- • I just found you, and proved some one wrong. The message posed to me was: "There is only one word in the English language withe the letters UFA in that order. Gook luck and have fun." I found "tufa"; she was looking for "manufacture". She was impressed, so I gave her this web address. (Shar G., Unemployed)
- • It's consummately excellent! And once there's a broad bandwith for the internet, I won't have to use my paperback dictionary any longer. Just one suggestion though: would you please add idioms and/or idiomatic expressions as well? Greatly appreciated. (Ndabezinhle Mkhize, Junior Actuarial Assistant) {There are idioms within many of the entries. We are hoping to make these more easily accessible in the future. Thanks for the suggestion. B.P.]
- • Wordsmyth rocks. (Stephen Kinkead, Recieving clerk)
- • I looked for "zarf" in my very old Webster's International (1960), then turned to the web where I found your site. What a delight to have a quick & certainly more updated reference. Thank you. (Barbara Kerr Scott, Ph.D., Art History Professor)
- • Just wanted to let you know this is an awesome service, and it's free no less! I know for a fact it will help me alot to understand my lectures better. Thanks guys! (Brock Strand, College Student)
- • The best one i have seen online: clear, concise, complete and fast. It would be great if someone could search only for synonyms. (Fabio Salvadori, Web promotion software developer)
- • I love your Wordsmyth Dictionary Project. I do home school with my childern, Wordsmyth is very helpful. Thanks for having it. (Becky, Home Maker)
- • I find it a great asset in my day to day operation. I only wish I could incorporate it into my Word Processing Program. Thanks again, (Karl Jurgen, Program Manager)
- • I got a big surprise when I find this site! Congratulation! This is a good example that how to use internet in our job. I'm Brazilian and I usually need to write in English. You can bet, I'll use this too much. Kindest Regards. (Cosme Freitas, Public Service)
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- • The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus was noted in the May PMLA (Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, p. 506, in the "Internet News")
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• I can not resist having Wordsmyth English dictionary in one of my browser windows all day long and from now on, it would be everyday!!! (Hatem AbouHassan, Systems Analyst)